Profile

I am a historian of the Atlantic World, with a particular focus on the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. My 2023 monograph Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade revealed how slave-trading merchants massively expanded the slave trade and powerfully shaped the experiences of millions of enslaved people. I also work on three major digital humanities projects: I am co-editor of the AHRC- and NEH-funded project Slave Voyages, a digital memorial to the 12.5 million Africans who were forcibly transported through the slave trade; principal investigator on the AHRC and NEH funded "Towards a Digital Archive of the Atlantic Slave Trades: Unlocking the Records of the South Sea Company; an co-investigator of the AHRC-funded Legacies of British Slave Traders project. I have also developed digital models of two French slave ships that are used in museums and classrooms around the world and have written journal articles on a plethora of topics in Atlantic history.